#JAB13 - B2J shortlisted for J.O.S.C.A.R.S.!
Written by Lilit Asatryan

This week was really a Jpositive one for us! Our guys came back to work at Bang2Joom with presents as promised! After an almost 5-hour debrief meeting, we quitted just to have lunch :)) So, being overdosed with positiveness and new fresh ideas, work at Bang2Joom started anew with a bright note. In the evening, when I was looking through my tweet feed, I found this tweet.
A click away and I was reading and finding some familiar extensions, websites nominated and...OMG, that's Bang2Joom.com!!! Super excited and checking over and over again, I was feeling Jawesome to find our website nominated! So, the first thing was to alarm all Bang2Joom people that we are nominated for J.O.S.C.A.R.S. How cool is that?!
J and Beyond? J.O.S.C.A.R.S.?
Are you happy and smilling? You might be a B2J enthusiast or Joomla! lover who know about us! Thank you! You inspire us! If you are like our Armenian friends who have some idea about all the J! love but do not know what this J! event is about then refer this blog to know what is J and Beyond.
Here is a small info on what J.O.S.C.A.R.S. is for the rest of you!
The J.O.S.C.A.R.S. are given to the J! Bees who worked hard during the year - Jproducts, Jservices and J geeks of the Joomla community. From the nominations International jury creates a shortlist. From this shortlist, all the attendees at J and Beyond vote and the winners are going to be announced on the 31st May which is today!!!
Categories vary, here is the shorlist of Joomla! Open Source Creative and Artistic Recognition Awards for this year's J and Beyond!
Free Joomla Add-ons
Cost-free extensions or tools, excluding templates
AkeebaBackup
JCE Editor
Kunena
xmap
Commercial Joomla Add-ons
Paid extensions or tools, excluding templates
ACL Manager
Advanced Module Manager
AkeebaBackup Pro
sh404SEF
Joomla Template Systems
Free or commercial template frameworks or boiler-plates
Gantry Framework
JoomlaBamboo
T3 Framework
Warp Framework
Joomla Services
Joomla-specific services such as hosting, training, support, contracting, etc...
myJoomla.com
OpenTranslators
OSTraining.com
watchful.li
Corporate Web Sites
Web sites built for the corporate sector
admincredible.com
contrastdesign.co.uk
www.peugeot.com
stackideas.com
Non-corporate Web Sites
Web sites built for the non-corporate sector such as NGOs, non-profits and Government
derbyshiredales.gov.uk
developer.joomla.org
gantry-framework.org
spto.org
eCommerce Web Sites
Web sites built for online storefront
bang2joom.com
boutique.heathrow.com
iaminfusion.com.au
superdry.com
Mobile Web Sites
Web sites built for the mobile web
greengroupstudio.com
hiddenjoomlasecrets.com
joostrap.com
taylorbruce.com
Github Junkie
Recognising core code contributions
David Hurley
Elin Waring
Mark Dexter
Nick Savov
Communications Junkie
Participation in Joomla chat rooms, blogs and on social media channels
Brian Teeman
Dianne Henning
Nick Savov
Radek Suski
Bug Junkie
Finding and/or fixing bugs on the tracker
Jean-Marie Simonet
Michael Babker
Nick Savov
Roberto Segura
Besides the categories mentioned above, there are also two additional awards "Joomla! Innovation of the year" and "Outstanding personal achievement" which will be decided by the International Jury. The first award goes to someone who has made valuable contributions to Joomla. Innovation of the Year will be awarded to a software, product, service or framework that represents an evolutionary step forward in the Joomla community.
THANK YOU for nominating us!
Congratulations to all of the shortlisted candidates of this years J!O.S.C.A.R.
P.S. Crossing the fingers ^_^